On Brand and British Christians

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  louise prideaux said,

  Response to David Williams.
  You’re absolutely right. Whatever Brand and Ross do is sinful. Their knowledge and suppression of the truth, according to Romans 1, condemns them. However, I think it would probably be prudent if I explain my ‘rant’ a little further…
  On the one hand, I was incredulous at the reaction of the apparent thousands of viewers who complained (in reality I believe it was a handful and the others jumped on the bandwaggon after watching Brand and Ross on youtube). They have absolutely no moral basis on which to ground their condemnation of the comedians’ prank. By decree of secularism we live in a nation of free speech! Tolerance of all opinion! So technically Brand and Ross are free to say what they like, when they like, and to whom they like, and use viewers money to do that. Yes they are depraved sinners and I expect them to do wicked things. Moreover, the BBC have moved very far from the supposed ‘Christian’ principles that hallmarked the corporation’s humble beginnings and to be fair, a programme like Little Britian has the potential to make Brand’s relationship claims (which were probably true) look like an episode from Bob the Builder.
  The public show their infidelity to secularism by complaining. The BBC show their cowardice by trying to bail out a sinking ship using forks. Brand and Ross do the ‘decent’ thing by apologising and in Brand’s case, resigning. Is there such a thing as a consistent atheist? Of course not. They all live on borrowed Christian capital and are restrained in their evil desires by our Lord of every sphere.
  So that’s one hand.
  The other hand is mostly about Christians who are happy to condemn the comedians morally, without thinking through the Romans 1 stuff and the common grace angle, yet are happy to sit back and watch the non-Church realm go down the proverbial pan without at least trying to snatch a few sinners from the fire. That to me is a glaring inconsistency and a short-sighted understanding of our relationship to the ‘world’. Don’t get me wrong, I absolutlely believe we should call a spade; a spade, or rather a sin; a sin!
  If I can be poetic for a moment, my heart aches for the world of media and the arts. I long for Christ to be acknowledged in this sphere; I long for lotharios and transvestites and ambition-crazed celebrities to come face to face, inescapably, daily with the life-transforming power of the gospel. Yes Ross and Brand stand presently as objects of God’s wrath. But I just wish that instead of adding strength to the incongruous yelp of secular BBC viewers by remaining within the ivory walls of our privatised religion, Christians would commit themselves to transforming whatever sphere they are in for the sake of our beloved King Jesus.
  On a lighter note, it did not escape my notice that the very same day that Russell Brand resigned from the BBC, it was announced that David Tennant would be stepping down from the illustrious role of the Doctor… Well, with the question of ‘who will play the 11th Doctor’ dripping from our lips, are the two events a mere co-incidence or is it an elaborate ploy of the BBC to throw us off the scent?! Perhaps the TARDIS could be furnished in pink velvet…

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